Responsibilities
- Assess your clients' needs and abilities, and monitor sporting performance and behavior.
- Implement strategies to help clients overcome difficulties, improve performance or realize potential.
- Work with a multidisciplinary team including other psychologists, nutritionists, GPs, coaches and physiologists.
- Deliver counseling and/or workshops covering issues such as goal setting, visualisation and relaxation.
- Conduct and apply research in sport or exercise psychology.
- Work with a broad range of clients including individual athletes, teams, coaches and referees, from amateur to elite professional level across a range of sporting disciplines.
- Develop tailored interventions to assist athletes in preparation for competition and to deal with the psychological demands of the sport.
- Equip athletes with mental strategies to cope with and overcome setbacks or injuries.
- Advise coaches how to improve squad cohesion or communication.
- Deliver group workshops on areas such as self-analysis of performance or techniques to develop mental skills within the sport.
Requirements
- An interest in sport.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Active listening and reflection skills.
- Patience and the ability to motivate others.
- Flexibility in order to work in a range of settings with different clients.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Decision-making ability.
- Commitment to research and continuing professional development (CPD).
- Ability to work under pressure and cope with stressful situations.
- A methodical approach to work.
- IT skills
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